Cattle guard



May' 20, 1924. 1,494,598

w. H. FAULKNER CATTLE GUARD Filed Juhe 1a. 1923 6 8 6 INVENTOR W/I/fam If. Fay/fine):

ATTORNEY Patented May 20, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrlce.

WILLIAM H. FAULKNER, OF PORT COQUITLAM, BRITISH COLUMBTA; CANADA.

CATTLE GUARD.

Application filed June 13, 1923. Serial No. 645,158.

This invention relates to a cattle-guard 10 such as is used to prevent cattle straying from a level road crossing to the right-ofway of a railway track.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan of the cattle-guard, certain of the removable elements being removed to show the supporting pivots.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail in part section of the rotatable discs and their pivots by which the track is guarded against the passage of cattle over it. I

Fig. 3, a modification of the same, and

Fig. at is a cross section of the railway track at the cattle-guard.

In these drawings 2 represents the rails of the track and 3 the ties, 4; being the floor of the level road crossing. Horizontally disposed discs are rotatably mounted, preferably on pivot pins 6 upwardly projecting from the ties or from a frame secured thereto. These discs are arranged in parallel rows between the track rails 2 and out side of the same.

The discs 5 are mounted to freelyrotatc on the pins 6 which may be secured to upwardly project from flanges 7, which may be secured to the ties 3, or, as shown in Fig. 8, the pins 6 may fit tightly in holes bored in the ties 3.

The discs 5 may be retained on the pins 6 by pins 10 through the hub of the disc and tilting; a circuinferential groove 11 in the 3m. i 1 The length of the ties on which the discs are mounted may be of such extra length as is necessary to receive two rows at least of the discs 5.

Longitudinals 8 may be secured to the ties 3 to extend lengthwise between each row of discs and if considered desirable a filler plate 9 may be secured to each longitudinal 8, as shown, between the lower two rows of discs.

Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

l. A cattle-guard, comprising the combi-' nation with a railwaytrack, of a series of. discs horizontally disposed and rotatably supported between the tracks and on each side of the rails adjacent the road crossing.

2. A cattle-guard comprising the combination with a railway track, of a series of discs horizontally disposed and rotatably supported in a substantially common plane between the tracks and on each side of the rails adjacent the road crossing.

3. A cattle-guard, comprising the combination with the railway track and the ties which support the track rails, of a series of discs horizontally disposed and mounted to freely rotate on pins projecting upward from the rail ties.

4. A cattle-guard, comprising the combination with a railway track of a series of discs horizontally disposed in a substantially common plane and rotatably mounted on pins secured to the ties to upwardly project from them.

5. A cattle-guard, comprising the combination with a railway track, or a series ofdiscs horizontally disposed and rotatably supported between the tracks and on each side of the rails adjacent the road crossing. and means for partially filling the spaces between the discs.

6. In a'cattle-guard, comprising the combination with a railway track, of a series of disks horizontally disposed and independently rotatably supported between the tracks and on each side of the rails adjacent to the road crossing.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM H. FAULKNER. 

